lisyarus

lisyarus, 1 month ago to random

Third day debugging GPU workgroup atomics to squeeze more perfomance from my raytracer, but it still hangs :(

Here's a cool debug visualization though :)

lisyarus, 8 months ago to random

So my font (Hermit by Pablo Caro) didn't have Cyrillic characters, so I took Noto Sans, generated mSDF for Cyrillic charset, made a python script that merges two fonts, and voila!

#indiedev #screenshotsaturday #steamnextfest

lisyarus, 10 days ago to random

The downside of using my own ECS implementation is that every week or so I need to fix an increasingly notorious low-level object lifetime / caching / etc bug

Though, I knew exactly what I'm signing up to

lisyarus, 9 months ago to ethelcain

Fellow #indie #gamedev s, how do you maintain interest & motivation for your project? I've noticed that after ~6 months I always burn out and can barely work at 10% the energy I had before. Any tips/suggestions/materials on that?

Or maybe getting used to this is the only way?...

lisyarus, 5 months ago to random

Btw, if you've never seen Sponza from the outside, this it what it looks like :)

lisyarus, 7 months ago to random

Unfortunately I have some sad news: the release of Costa Verde will have to be delayed a bit due to issues with Steam build review process (TL;DR: I fucked up).

Shouldn't take more than a few days, though :)

lisyarus, 7 months ago to random

First time trying to make some gratin. I severely underestimated the heat, time, and seasoning it needs 😅

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lisyarus, 3 months ago to random

Giving a lecture after barely 5 hrs of sleep after you've been preparing said lecture the whole night is, well, not on my list of nice things

Here's a cute pic tho

lisyarus, 5 months ago to random

First humble attempts at generating roofs. I couldn't come up with a roof building tool as detailed as the one used for walls, so I'm experimenting with just filling the entire roof of a building automatically. There are unexpectedly many corner cases again!

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lisyarus, 6 months ago to random

RealCivilEngineer made a video with my game! This might be the largest marketing push ever for this project :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s53OF9FTlGU

lisyarus, 7 months ago to random

Question to game artists: if I'm aiming at low-poly vertex-colored models, should I use some fixed overall color palette, or just use whatever colors a particular model needs?

lisyarus, 5 months ago to random

Added support for per-object color transform matrix, which allows me to e.g. change the hue of the roofs from red to this dark cyan. I guess the final tiled roof model will be white with some brightness variation, and the actual on-screen color will be set via this color matrix.

lisyarus, 4 months ago to indiegames

Been mostly refactoring lately, but here are some cute fires 🥰 I'll definitely animate them later, just need to concentrate on more important stuff right now.

Also please ignore the glitching shadows 😅

#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #indiegames

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lisyarus, 3 months ago to random

Virtual soft-body creatures update: after implementing sexual reproduction (mixed with occasional asexual one), changing the fitness metric (favor larger creatures, penalize energy usage) and a ton of tweaking, these guys seem to consistently move towards evolving legs:

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lisyarus, 3 months ago to random

One of the coolest things in teaching is that you can learn from the students: today they showed me a 2x faster way to apply quaternion rotation
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2021/06/16/faster-quaternion-rotations/

lisyarus, 5 months ago to random

Putting up fences around my trees so that they don't run away :3

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lisyarus, 2 months ago to random

Re-working my planet generator. Switched to fractal 3D Perlin noise (better but more costly than what I did before), generating random noise-to-height mapping functions, and spicing it up with random colors.

Later I want to specify actual surface chemical composition, but for now just random colors will do :)

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lisyarus, 1 month ago to random

Oh no, there's some weird bug in the raytracer (this should be a fully smooth diffuse sphere)

lisyarus, 1 month ago to random

Another weird raytracing bug! The black patches on the border are expected - these are artifacts due to having an extremely low-poly metallic surface with interpolated normals.

The white circles, however, are probably some funny floating-point business

lisyarus, 4 months ago to random

So I'm planning to try using goal-oriented AI (GOAP) for this project. Anybody got some suggestions, advice, resources, or strong opinions on this pattern?

#indiedev

lisyarus, 12 days ago to random

So I decided I don't want behavior trees for my game's agents' AI, so I implemented GOAP, then realized GOAP doesn't work for me, so I implemented a simple "reusable action queue" thing, then these actions became stateful and suspendable and hierarchical, and guess which pattern allows for hierarchical stateful suspendable actions...

lisyarus, 2 months ago to random

Trying some more interesting shapes other than cubes in my physics engine :)

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lisyarus, 18 days ago to random

"Grass cutting tasks" get automatically cancelled when the grass dies out. I had to make some big upgrades to my ECS implementation for this to work properly

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lisyarus, 5 months ago to random

Playing a bit with lights. This evening/sunset scene looks particularly pretty :3

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lisyarus, 1 month ago to random

Still trying to implement proper transparent bsdf in my raytracer (instead of hard-coding the refraction ray). Multiple sources and implementations use different formulas and neither of them works 😆

Also I have no idea what's happening on the screenshot